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Synopsis

Mass Effect Andromeda takes players to the Andromeda galaxy, far beyond the Milky Way. There, players will lead our fight for a new home in hostile territory - where WE are the aliens - opposed by a deadly indigenous race bent at stopping us. Play as the Pathfinder - a leader of a squad of military-trained explorers - with deep progression and customization systems. This is the story of humanity¿s next chapter, and player choices throughout the game will ultimately determine our survival in the Andromeda Galaxy. As you unfold the mysteries of the Andromeda Galaxy and the hope for humanity lies on your shoulders - You must ask yourself...How far will you go?

Product Features

Build a Formidable Hero With Amazing Weapons, Powers and Tech. With a much more flexible skill and weapon progression tree, you can replicate your play style to make you unstoppable against new, powerful alien enemies.

Fight with your Pathfinder Team In Battle Against Terrifying Enemies and Creatures. New additions like destructible environments, boosted jumps for added verticality, and all-new weapons and Biotics make combat more thrilling than ever.

Lead the First Humans in Andromeda on a Desperate Search for our New Home. In this new chapter of Mass Effect, meet and recruit all-new, interesting characters caught up in an epic space saga filled with mystery and galactic conflict.

Chart Your Own Course in a Dangerous New Galaxy. Unravel the mysteries of the Andromeda galaxy as you discover rich, alien worlds in the search for humanity¿s new home.

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Typical of EA

March 25, 2017

I do not recommend purchasing this title until EA/Bioware implement some major fixes. Crashes and loading issues are being experienced by most players across all platforms, and in some cases (mine included), these issues make the game totally unplayable. At this point, although the game is good it's a waste of money because at some point you'll most likely be unable to play. I'd highly recommend waiting a few weeks so the publisher and developer have a chance to fix an extremely buggy game that should have causes a delay in release.

A Black eye for the franchise

March 24, 2017

I was very excited hearing that this was coming out and from the trailers it looked fantastic, sporting 4K graphics and an awesome story. However, this was not the case. My third day into it I've pretty much put it on the shelf. The graphics are not impressive for 4K at all and is more like the graphics from ME2. This in itself is disapointing considering how long it's been since ME2. The charicters in the game are very poorly animated and many of the NPC characters have the exact same faces. Not a lot of difference between the Asari faces or even the Salarian faces. The animation was done by someone who has never done game animation before and it shows.
Now on to the game play. The missions are very slow and repetative to say the least. While the story is very rich and compelling, the battle mechanics are a big sloppy. The enemy AI has perfect aim at you and ignores your team members with perfect accuracy, even on Normal difficulty you will find some of the enemies impossible to defeat. There were many times when I was killed and reloaded from the last checkpoint it would lock up for nearly 20 minutes and then get a crash notification from the PS4.
Maybe things will change if they patch it, but you definitely won't get better animation or graphics. It was very obvious that this was a new team making this game and EA was doing their usual business practice of rushing a game without truly doing any QA. I would not recommend this to any hard core ME fans and even the casual fan will find it very frustrating. Wait a few weeks and buy a used copy if you really want to try it out. I would definitely not pay full price for something that feels more like an add-on for ME2 or ME3.

A Step Back

March 31, 2017

Its amazing that the original Mass Effect trilogy is better than this train wreck. As bad as 3 was, this start to a new trilogy was a mistake. Animations are terrible, voice acting is sub par, story is all over the place and they leave so many things unexplained you wonder why they are there to begin with. Mass Disappointment.

My First Mass Effect Game & I'm Really Enjoying It

April 20, 2017

I purchased Mass Effect: Andromeda for my PS4 Pro and it looks AMAZING in 4K HDR! I have currently put over 8 hours into this game that I purchased a few days ago and I've had a great time playing it! I had read reviews about facial animations being messed up at launch, but there was an update not too long ago that helped fix a-lot of the facial animations that weren't synced correctly with the voices. The faces of the characters could use a little more graphical advancements which I read is actually being worked on for a future update, but everything else looks gorgeous! The sound effects for this game are spot on and really help bring the Andromeda world to life! The story so far, in my opinion, has been very interesting, and has kept me coming back each day wanting to play more and learn more of the story. I saw that BioWare has acknowledged other reviewers comments and feedback, and they said that they will be working hard to fix as much as they can for future updates which is nice to hear. This is a comment BioWare made in a post on their website for Mass Effect...
Over the next two months we’ll be rolling out additional patches which will go even deeper and look to improve several areas of the game:
- More options and variety in the character creator
- Improvements to hair and general appearance for characters
- Ongoing improvements to cinematic scenes and animations
- Improvements to male romance options for Scott Ryder
- Adjustments to conversations with Hainly Abrams
- These upcoming patches will also address performance and stability issues. We’re also looking at adding more cosmetic items to single player for free.

Jank King

March 31, 2017

I'm a huge fan of Mass Effect trilogy, but I simply can't get over how glitchy, janky, and terribly put together this game is. The combat is fun...I'll give it that. But don't expect any kind of immersion. The glitches and poor animations pull you right out of the experience.

Animations not very good.

March 31, 2017

There are countless of times where the facial animations and just normal cutscenes just completely bugged out. Coming from Bioware, people that makes games where facial expressions are prominent to the story, they kind of dropped the ball on this game. They did however breathe new life into the combat system.

Typical of EA
Posted by: Swanny from: on I do not recommend purchasing this title until EA/Bioware implement some major fixes. Crashes and loading issues are being experienced by most players across all platforms, and in some cases (mine included), these issues make the game totally unplayable. At this point, although the game is good it's a waste of money because at some point you'll most likely be unable to play. I'd highly recommend waiting a few weeks so the publisher and developer have a chance to fix an extremely buggy game that should have causes a delay in release.

10 out of 12 found this review helpful.

3

A Black eye for the franchise
Posted by: MassEffectFan75 from: on I was very excited hearing that this was coming out and from the trailers it looked fantastic, sporting 4K graphics and an awesome story. However, this was not the case. My third day into it I've pretty much put it on the shelf. The graphics are not impressive for 4K at all and is more like the graphics from ME2. This in itself is disapointing considering how long it's been since ME2. The charicters in the game are very poorly animated and many of the NPC characters have the exact same faces. Not a lot of difference between the Asari faces or even the Salarian faces. The animation was done by someone who has never done game animation before and it shows.
Now on to the game play. The missions are very slow and repetative to say the least. While the story is very rich and compelling, the battle mechanics are a big sloppy. The enemy AI has perfect aim at you and ignores your team members with perfect accuracy, even on Normal difficulty you will find some of the enemies impossible to defeat. There were many times when I was killed and reloaded from the last checkpoint it would lock up for nearly 20 minutes and then get a crash notification from the PS4.
Maybe things will change if they patch it, but you definitely won't get better animation or graphics. It was very obvious that this was a new team making this game and EA was doing their usual business practice of rushing a game without truly doing any QA. I would not recommend this to any hard core ME fans and even the casual fan will find it very frustrating. Wait a few weeks and buy a used copy if you really want to try it out. I would definitely not pay full price for something that feels more like an add-on for ME2 or ME3.

10 out of 12 found this review helpful.

2

A Step Back
Posted by: Triz from: on Its amazing that the original Mass Effect trilogy is better than this train wreck. As bad as 3 was, this start to a new trilogy was a mistake. Animations are terrible, voice acting is sub par, story is all over the place and they leave so many things unexplained you wonder why they are there to begin with. Mass Disappointment.

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

2

Jank King
Posted by: VincentAlexander from: on I'm a huge fan of Mass Effect trilogy, but I simply can't get over how glitchy, janky, and terribly put together this game is. The combat is fun...I'll give it that. But don't expect any kind of immersion. The glitches and poor animations pull you right out of the experience.

4 out of 5 found this review helpful.

5

My First Mass Effect Game & I'm Really Enjoying It
Posted by: Avery97 from: Cumming on I purchased Mass Effect: Andromeda for my PS4 Pro and it looks AMAZING in 4K HDR! I have currently put over 8 hours into this game that I purchased a few days ago and I've had a great time playing it! I had read reviews about facial animations being messed up at launch, but there was an update not too long ago that helped fix a-lot of the facial animations that weren't synced correctly with the voices. The faces of the characters could use a little more graphical advancements which I read is actually being worked on for a future update, but everything else looks gorgeous! The sound effects for this game are spot on and really help bring the Andromeda world to life! The story so far, in my opinion, has been very interesting, and has kept me coming back each day wanting to play more and learn more of the story. I saw that BioWare has acknowledged other reviewers comments and feedback, and they said that they will be working hard to fix as much as they can for future updates which is nice to hear. This is a comment BioWare made in a post on their website for Mass Effect...
Over the next two months we’ll be rolling out additional patches which will go even deeper and look to improve several areas of the game:
- More options and variety in the character creator
- Improvements to hair and general appearance for characters
- Ongoing improvements to cinematic scenes and animations
- Improvements to male romance options for Scott Ryder
- Adjustments to conversations with Hainly Abrams
- These upcoming patches will also address performance and stability issues. We’re also looking at adding more cosmetic items to single player for free.

4 out of 5 found this review helpful.

3

Not as good as the original trilogy
Posted by: DeadlyVirus from: on Does not live up to the quality of the first trilogy. Feels rushed

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

5

Good game, but a little buggy.
Posted by: KM25 from: on Overall the game is good. Usually with open world games, they are biggy upon relesse and this is no different. Nothing gamebreaking, but noticeable. They'll get patched eventually.

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

2

Animations not very good.
Posted by: IAmNotTJElliott from: on There are countless of times where the facial animations and just normal cutscenes just completely bugged out. Coming from Bioware, people that makes games where facial expressions are prominent to the story, they kind of dropped the ball on this game. They did however breathe new life into the combat system.

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

5

Mass Effect: Andromeda PS4
Posted by: dude1k from: on Bought this for my son. He loves it and the content seems to be immersive to the point where it will take more than 2 days for him to complete it.

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

5

Mass effect!
Posted by: Ezmoney05 from: Rockwall tx on Not the best ME game but still great! The exploration is incredible!